Thomson Reuters interviewed Knobbe Martens partner Mauricio Uribe for a Q&A on gaining IP protection through design patents, featured in Westlaw Today. In the Q&A “IP expert Mauricio Uribe on strategic uses of design patents,” Uribe provides insights into how design patents can provide protection that differs from copyright protection, ways on how design patent protection can make a company’s patent portfolio more attractive or more productive, the possibility of a separate design patent bar initiative, and more.
“Design patents are best understood as an enforcement tool against counterfeit or knockoff goods,” said Uribe.
Read the full Q&A here.
This article was first published on Westlaw Today on November 9, 2022.